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<h1 id="NAME">NAME <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<p>Devel::RingBuffer::Ring - Single ring of a <a href="../RingBuffer.pod.html">Devel::RingBuffer</a></p>

<h1 id="SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<pre>    #
    #    create ringbuffer
	#
	use Devel::RingBuffer;
	use Devel::RingBuffer::TieInt;

	my $ringbuf = Devel::RingBuffer-&gt;new(
		File =&gt; 'somefile.trace',
		Rings =&gt; 20,
		Slots =&gt; 20,
		MessageSize =&gt; 256,
		GlobalSize =&gt; 24 * 1024,
		StopOnCreate =&gt; 0,
		TraceOnCreate =&gt; 1) || die &quot;Can't create a ring buffer.&quot;;

	my $ring = $ringbuf-&gt;allocate();
	#
	#	setup the next slot in the ring
	#
	$depth = $ring-&gt;nextSlot();
	#
	#	update the current slot with the new linenumber and timestamp
	#
	$ring-&gt;updateSlot();
	#
	#	free the current slot when we return from its subroutine call
	#
	$depth = $ring-&gt;freeSlot();




</pre><h1 id="DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<p>Provides shared memory structures (using memory mapped files via
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IPC%3A%3AMmap">IPC::Mmap</a> and <a href="../RingBuffer.pod.html">Devel::RingBuffer</a>).</p>

<h1 id="METHODS">METHODS <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<p>Refer to included classdocs for summary and detailed method descriptions.</p>

<h1 id="SEE_ALSO">SEE ALSO <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<p><a href="../RingBuffer.pod.html">Devel::RingBuffer</a></p>

<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Devel%3A%3ASTrace">Devel::STrace</a></p>

<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?IPC%3A%3AMmap">IPC::Mmap</a></p>

<p><a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perldebguts">perldebguts</a></p>

<p>strace(1) <i>(or truss(1))</i></p>

<h1 id="AUTHOR_COPYRIGHT_AND_LICENSE">AUTHOR, COPYRIGHT, AND LICENSE <a href="#TOP" class="toplink"><img alt="^" src="../../up.gif" /></a></h1>

<p>Dean Arnold <a href="mailto:darnold@presicient.com">mailto:darnold@presicient.com</a></p>

<p>Copyright(C) 2006, Dean Arnold, Presicient Corp., USA.
All rights reserved.</p>

<p>Permission is granted to use this software under the same terms as Perl itself.
Refer to the <a href="http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?perlartistic">Perl Artistic License</a> for details.</p>





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